Persuade Quotes

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. Winston Churchill
Me Achievement Brilliant Wife Marry Ability Able Most Persuade
Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Anger Will Ability Advance Annoyance Reacting Persuade
To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry. Paul Rand
Value Design Add Clarify More Poetry Simplify Simply Prose Perhaps Edit Than Order Transform Meaning Much Modify Persuade Assemble Even Illuminate Amuse
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal. Marilyn Ferguson
Change Argument Guards We Cannot Inside Only Emotional Open No-One Opened Another Cannot Either Us Persuade Appeal Each Gate
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. Thomas Jefferson
Time Good Men Own Takes Persuade Even
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. Abraham Lincoln
Good You Man Business Opportunity Good Man Will Superior Lawyer Enough Neighbors Compromise Still Discourage Whenever Being Litigation Persuade Your Peacemaker
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. Charles Darwin
God Myself Living Omnipotent Beneficent Would Parasitic Feeding Within Intention Cannot Created Bodies Persuade Express Wasps
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. Stendhal
Sheep Own Tries Always Shepherd His Same Interests Persuade
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills. Thomas Aquinas
God Prayer Man Will Wills Only Shall He Clear Him Himself Does Pray Stir Uplifting Far Us Lower Persuade Requires Who
The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us. Charles R. Swindoll
God Wonderful About He Knows Wonderful Thing Us Persuade Thing Need
The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them. Dean Rusk
Best People Listening Ears Way Best Way Them Persuade Your
It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds. John H. Johnson
Change People Better Smart Opportunity Try Will Take Advantage Minds Mad Take Advantage Insulted Than Get Persuade
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry. Simone Weil
Soul Lie Doubt Danger Hungry Itself Any Bread Whether Persuade Should Lest
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. Robert A. Heinlein
Dark Black Cat Never Cellar Any Anything Midnight Themselves Persuade Theologians Theology Help Searching
We're not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which everyone lives like an American. Billions more people living in suburbs and driving SUVs to shopping malls is a recipe for planetary suicide. We can't even afford to continue that way of life ourselves. Alex Steffen
Life People Shopping World Living Suicide Recipe Everyone Way Ourselves Neither More More People Driving Developing Developing World Like Without Go Continue Malls Afford American Going Which Suburbs Planet Persuade Planetary Billions Even Lives
I love to follow truth; nay, I have made it my duty to persuade others to act on truth and abjure falsehood for the sake of their own good. So, the eradication of iniquities is the object of my life. Dayananda Saraswati
Life Love Truth Good Made My Life Own Duty Others Follow Object Sake Falsehood Persuade Act Nay
I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate. Helen Thomas
People Think Once Presidents Nixon Seem More Could Had Longer Govern Covered Decided Convince Persuade Should Who Tolerant Tolerate Now Credibility Two
I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others. Jane Goodall
Me Dog Long Before Others Only Learned Were Did Personalities Persuade Help Beings
It's very hard to persuade a young person who has seen the Great Recession, who has seen all the problems with inequality, to tell them inequality is not important and that markets are always efficient. They'd think you're crazy. Joseph Stiglitz
Great Crazy You Problems Seen Important Young Think Recession Markets Tell Inequality Always Very Efficient Person Young Person Them Persuade Hard Who
That's what you're looking for as a writer when you're working. You're looking for your own freedom. To lose your inhibition to delve deep into your memory and experiences and life and then to find the prose that will persuade the reader. Philip Roth
Life Freedom You Memory Will Looking Lose Own Find Writer Prose Reader Experiences Then Persuade Working Your Inhibition Deep
People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you. Vernon Howard
You People Follow Properly Make Person Them Persuade Who Appreciate
When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You Important Nothing Say Anyone Interesting Persuade
The testimony of former abortion workers can help persuade lawmakers to create fair laws that protect women from dirty abortion facilities. Abby Johnson
Women Abortion Lawmakers Laws Facilities Dirty Fair Protect Testimony Former Create Workers Persuade Help
I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish. Action Bronson
Work Day Me Man End Of The Day Will Criticism Analyze Way One-Way Finish Take Nobody Piece Make Another Because Always End Times Going Listen Want Decisions Persuade Persuaded Started
I have always thought that pandas, in evolutionary terms, are the most sophisticated animals in the world. They cannot look after themselves; they are useless at reproducing. But to compensate, they have managed to persuade the most advanced creatures on the planet - human beings - to care for their every need. Adam Curtis
World Care Thought Animals Every Evolutionary Advanced Sophisticated Look Most Terms Always Human Human Beings After Reproducing Cannot Themselves Planet Persuade Useless Beings Creatures Compensate Need
That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out. Adam Hughes
Try Job Out Someone Attention Attract Comic Issue Cover Them Persuade
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